six.

Sadly as nice as the last cake looked it was not a crowd pleaser, so back to the drawing board (a.k.a internet) and I found a great recipe on http://www.sweetapolita.com/ if you like to bake I really suggest checking out her site! I'm not going copy and paste the whole recipe because there was alot to it... Essentially it is a Neopolitan Cake, you can look that up on the link above if you're really curious. It has 5 layers in it: 2 chocolate, 2 vanilla and 1 strawberry. In bewteen the layers is a strawberry raspberry jam and it is covered with Buttercream icing.

For the jam filling I took a jar of unsweetened raspberry jam and heated it on the stove in a small saucepan, I then added about a cup of frozen strawberries and brought the mixture to a boil. I then strained the sauce and re-jarred the jam and set it in the fridge overnight. It was tastey!!


Here is the first vanilla layer, fluffy egg whites and almond extract really made a difference here!

 After the vanilla was chocolate, with coffee as a wet ingredient! Need I say more?

Third was the strawberry cake with strawberry Jello and strawberry puree.... Yum!

The cake was so tall I ended up taking out one of the strawberry layers to make it a more reasonable height. 

I stacked the cake layers with the jam filling between each in the following order;

• Vanilla
• Chocolate
• Strawberry
• Chocolate
• Vanilla

And this was the result.....

I then applied the crumb coat,

It went in the fridge like this for about an hour. Then I took it out and iced it,



And I couldn't have done it without my little kitchen helper....

 

 

"Mom can we please have the cake now?"



I just love the way this one looks when you cut into it! And it was much better received by the critics.

~K